How to find the first space?

[Johny]

How can I find the first space using regex?

For example I have text
Text=' This is a sample '

The last space I can remove by
Text=re.sub(r"\s(?!\w)",'',Text)

but I do not know how to remove the first space.
Can anyone help?

Thanks
L.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Why do you need to use a regex?

text = text.replace(" ", "")

You are aware that this is producing nonsense given the OP's requirements?
Thisisasample

Instead, the OP wants
This is a sample

Diez

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

How can I find the first space using regex?

For example I have text
Text=' This is a sample '

The last space I can remove by
Text=re.sub(r"\s(?!\w)",'',Text)

but I do not know how to remove the first space.
Can anyone help?

Use the strip-method, as defined on stringlike objects.

Diez

 

[Maric Michaud]

Le Monday 09 June 2008 17:02:51 Johny, vous avez écrit :

How can I find the first space using regex?

For example I have text
Text=' This is a sample '

The last space I can remove by
Text=re.sub(r"\s(?!\w)",'',Text)

For spaces at the end of line, I prefer this one :

re.sub(r'\s*$', '', s)

but I do not know how to remove the first space.
Can anyone help?

At the beginning :

re.sub(r'^\s*', '', s)

And the one that strip the whole line (not obvious) :

re.sub(r'\s*(\S+.*\S+)\s*', r'\1', s)


You really should consider s.strip(), rstrip(), lstrip()

String manipulation methods cover almost all use cases, and give better codes,
keep regexes for what they are really valuable (parsing complex idioms,
second step optimisation).

I can't even remember the last time I used re module in production code in
python (unlike in perl or shell).

Thanks
L.

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[Chris]

How can I find the first space using regex?

For example I have text
Text=' This is a sample '

The last space I can remove by
Text=re.sub(r"\s(?!\w)",'',Text)

but I do not know how to remove the first space.
Can anyone help?

Thanks
L.

If it's leading spaces you're worried about you can use the .lstrip()
method, if you want to find the first space you can use .index(' ') to
get the position of it and do with what you want.